Surface diagrams of smooth 4-manifolds

Speaker:

Jonathan Williams

Affiliation:

Georgia Inst. of Technology/MPI

Date:

Mon, 21/05/2012 - 16:30 - 17:15

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

Geometric Topology Seminar [3]

Any smooth, closed oriented 4-manifold M has a surface diagram, which is a closed, orientable surface,
decorated with simple closed curves, that specifies M up to diffeomorphism. I will discuss various
properties of surface diagrams.